Faced with thousands of students who would otherwise not graduate on time, the Los Angeles Unified School District is waving the white flag. In 2011, the district implemented a new academic standard requiring students entering 9th grade in 2012 to enroll in and complete A-G college prep classes. To graduate, they would need to maintain a C average or better, which would also make them eligible for the University of California.

Now, looking at 22,000 students who would otherwise be denied a diploma in 2017, the LAUSD is going back on their standards. The board voted Tuesday to allow students with a D average to graduate, even though they would not be eligible for the University of California. According to the Daily News, 51 percent of incoming seniors are not poised to graduate within the original standards.

The LAUSD is largely Hispanic, a fact that plays heavily into the district’s troubles. Not helping matters is the recent surge in illegal immigration. Students unable to speak English comprise nearly 23 percent of the district’s population, a number that has only increased since the wave of unaccompanied minors in 2014.

“I want to apologize to all the young people that did not make it,” said one board member. “We care and we are responsible to you too.”

But it seems the district’s “responsibility” to these students will be limited to handing them an ill-earned diploma. From there, it’s anyone’s guess what might happen.

Higher, Impossible Standards

The scenario in Los Angeles points to a number of problems, but perhaps the biggest of them is this backwards approach to education. Politicians eager to stamp their name on an educational program that works have pushed for higher standards in schools, hoping somehow that these standards will actually make a difference. Instead, it’s like telling a person who can run a 10 minute mile that they have to run it in 5. That’s great, but unless you have some tools to help that person succeed, the standard is meaningless.

That’s the situation we’re facing all around the country. With every government turnover, education standards creep higher. Meanwhile, students are doing worse than ever. There’s no connection in the middle. And we keep repeating the cycle instead of putting people in charge who actually know the first thing about how students learn. What good does it do to have sky-high standards if no one can reach them?

The College Crunch

But it may also be time to rethink the necessity of college. President Obama and Hillary Clinton want to make college free for everyone. But this will not only put a huge burden on the taxpayers, it will also water down a college degree to the point where it is roughly meaningless.

Not every job needs to require a college degree. There are millions of American jobs that have degree requirements that have little or nothing to do with the actual standards of the job. And there are millions of Americans working in career fields that have nothing to do with their major. We’ve decided that a college education is a kind of litmus test. But even if there’s some merit to that, it ceases to matter if almost everyone graduates.

High standards are a good thing. Phantom standards that are not accompanied by a mechanism through which to achieve them are not. What’s happening in Los Angeles is an embarrassment, but it’s an embarrassment we’re likely to see more of as educators come to an inevitable understanding: Not everyone is destined to succeed.

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The dumbing down of America…bravo democrats your states produce winners..

old codger

….and whiners!

DaveM

And feces smelling mouths!

RMCSRET

Now folks you are seeing in blatant terms as to why the United States is losing business to Foreign countries,
We are continually dumbing down the population here in the United States just so the Liberals who are running
the Education System are not to be made to look bad. Thank you local Liberal Politican next time you
go to Walmart and only see Chinese goods on the Shelf.

First of all why are US tax payers paying for illegals to get an education ?
Second, if a person enters OUR country illegally why haven’t they been arrested and deported ?
Third, why are US tax payers expected to pay for other foreign countries trash ?
The answer to all three questions is Liberal Stupidity.

absinthe

No. I am an old man. I remember.

LBJ promised that he was going to open the borders. He got 64% of the vote in 1964 against Goldwater. “64 in ’64”! LBJ’s promise to open the borders won the overwhelming support of the American electorate, because he introduced welfare inducements (Medicare, Medicaid, lavish Social Security raises, other Great Society inducements) to the American population. His war in Vietnam enriched the war manufacturers.

What was there not to like about opening the borders to illegal aliens?

Not-a-RINO

LBJ created the Liberal Democrat Welfare Plantation which decimated communities by destroying traditional black families. He is quoted many times as saying in the signing of the legislation, “We’ll have those ni**ers voting for us for the next 200 years.” Nearly 96% of the black population votes Democrat, just as LBJ predicted. There is a slight problem for the DNC however: According to Blackgenocide.com (EXTREMELY graphic site and not fit for young eyes), the black population is shrinking due to three of five black pregnancies ending in abortion, fulfilling Margaret Sanger’s vision for the future. This is exactly why today the illegals are streaming over the border. Being poor, no work skills, illiterate, unable/unwilling to assimilate, criminals or unable to read and write English makes them ideal supporters of the Democrat Party. In fact, they vote as much, if not more, for Democrats than blacks do.

Being traitorous, deceitful, criminal, or disgusting has never bothered Democrats. In fact, in a recent article I read, 53% of Democrats believe illegals should have the right to vote in elections.

So there you have it – what nearly all America-loving patriots find is revolting in illegal immigration is put in place by design to ensure a solid voting bloc for a morally bankrupt political party. I wish it wasn’t so, but there’s way too much evidence to say otherwise.

papa doug

Exactly right, it’s the real “no child left behind” crap they just push everyone through. The democratic party knows that the less educated the masses are the easier to blind them to the truth. This is self evident when you consider the poor, the uneducated, the illegal immigrants, and for much longer uneducated Blacks should vote conservative because that is mostly their belief but they vote democrat because it SOUNDS more democratic. They don’t understand politics and have no idea what most politicians are saying. They follow Hillary and will vote for her because she’s a woman and a democrat. If they ever awaken and discover how they’ve been lied to by the democrats the honeymoon will be over.

Conservative

Public Schools have not ‘educated’ in decades. Now it is simply indoctrination so that Communism will just seem normal and natural to them. No wonder Obama is so anti-charter schools! The Demagogues will soon be trying to enforce this indoctrination on Charter, private and parochial schools. The only climate change is the evil that is permeating the air our youth and liberals breathe.

OSAMA OBAMA

“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get
along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.”- Karl Marx

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation requiring public schools to include the
contributions of gay and lesbian people in their curriculum, making California the first state to adopt such a requirement.

A Silicon Valley lawmaker is gaining momentum with a bill that would require “climate change” to be among the science topics that all California public school students
are taught. The measure, by state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, also would
mandate that future science textbooks approved for California public schools include climate change.

PASADENA (CBSLA.com/AP) — A bill authored by a Pasadena lawmaker that encourages schools to teach about the historical significance of Barack Obama becoming the nation’s first African-American president is now California law.

old codger

Not to mention it but it could be a messy divorce!!

Conservative

EXCELLENT post, thank you. Everything you said is fact but the Demagogues do not care about or appreciate the Constitution of the U.S. They are only concerned about what they have defined as ‘political correctness’, they care about forcing their idiocies on everyone through education and laws designed to deny anyone opposing them freedom. They care about living off the taxpayers with ever increasing ‘hand-outs’ to make them lazier and with feelings of entitlement. They want everything the working class has without paying for it. They resent those who work to provide for themselves and their families and they will protest and riot if they do not get every selfish need met. This is Communism in the making and we are losing more freedoms and autonomy with every passing day. It is pitiful that we worry more about people paying nothing for Obamacare than they do about providing adequate, timely care for Veterans who managed to stay alive but now live with the loss of limbs and are tormented with PTSD. There should not be one homeless Vet in the U.S. but they can be found languishing on every city street. We spend more on indoctrinating kids then preventing suicide among Vets.

bobtherebuilder

Yours also…EXCELLENT indeed!!! It IS the “gimme, gimme”, “entitlement” mentality that the far left leaning, prog/lib loons have been PUSHING that has created this DISASTROUS “ideology” !!! And it brings the same tears to my eyes now, as when I saw this man yesterday (and have seen him, and others previously) standing in front of a busy mall, still PROUDLY wearing a cap, with the emblem of the branch of military they SERVED in, now holding a SIGN requesting any financial assistance you may wish to bestow upon them, instead of the WEAPON they once held to defend a Country in which the “Government” has so thoroughly abandoned them!! This is as far as can go with this, the tears flow again, and I’m getting too disgusted to go any further…God Bless ALL these veterans, and God Bless you, and yours!!!

Conservative

Thank you for your post but I must admit it brought tears to my eyes. Why oh why does our government neglect and abuse those who protect us, serve honorably and really ask nothing in return. This government, this population of selfish, self-centered people, use the most honorable and the bravest like non-persons while they obsess with LGBT rights, providing for every need of those who refuse to work, women’s rights, minimum wage and leave for every occasion but there is no leave if a man in the Military if his wife has a baby or if they have a sick parent or friend that needs care, no home waiting for them when they are discharged. No medical care except for waiting in line from the corrupt V.A. while we give free Obamacare to the ‘do-nothings’. We give the do-nothings subsidized housing but don’t worry about the homeless Vets languishing on the streets. Vets have to depend on public donations if they need one of those tank-like machines to get around. We have slobs putting on a Military uniform and panhandling The list just goes on. What kind of a society do we live in when the Military Veterans and Police are abused and degraded with no respect or appreciation – just a bunch of hollow words, i.e. ‘Thank you for your service’. The audacity of Obama and Hillary to meet the coffin of three American heroes and then blatantly lie to the mothers: “We will catch the one who made that anti Mohammed video when they both knew they could have sent help weeks before and at the time it occurred if they cared. This happened because Hillary’s friend, Blumenthal who was not supposed to be working with her, sent her the phony video message and then they send out a little twirp to spread this stupid story on all the Sunday morning shows. Then Hillary falls and bumps her head and just cannot possibly testify before the Benghazi Committee and when she finally did she get insulted and yells “What difference, at this point, does it make? What would she say if Chelsea and her granddaughter was needlessly killed by terrorists? It would make a hell of a lot of difference then. She would send out the entire U.S. Military and every law-enforcement agency in the Country to convict and kill that murdered. Oh, let us not forget Candy Crowley who shut Mitt Romney up at the Presidental debate when he tried to point this fallacy out! This is so sick and we cannot exist as a Country unless we get our priorities straight. Maybe it’s to be expected; every other great democracy has failed for much of the same reasons.

lv4921391

Hell their standard bearer “Killary” Hillary is a Liar, Deceitful, Disgusting candidate for President of the US (or wants to be)… she was fired from her first government job (as a Lawyer) for being a LIAR and by a life long democrat….GOOGLE IT

It’s really the Liberal agenda to dilute the white vote and give Democrats( whose agenda is to become the party of blacks and minorities only) perpetual access to running the country and committing genocide of whites.

Jane Jessee

If we lose the White House in 2016, this country is done. Killery will be much worse than Ovomit….

momsense1

This woman ought to have an orange jump suit in the traveling clothes. Were she anyone else, but Swillery, her rap sheet would be miles long—including possible murder.

grafra102

@momsense1:disqus: Did you see on the news, her so called three piece wardrobe “RED, WHITE AND BLUE”??? bs

momsense1

What a pile from an anti-military party representative. Every time she opens her mouth, I can hear the hollowness in her voice.

DaveM

NOT possible murder….DEFINITE MURDER AND DERELICTION OF DUTY!

KingoLingus

Its HITLERY Jane, Killery is good but HITLERY is better 🙂

grafra102

@kingolingus:disqus: oK, i WILL ADD HITLERYto my comment a few above!!!

old codger

All good names for the B!TCH!! My personal favorite is HildaBeast! She reminds me of the frumpy little witch from the comic strip Broom Hilda and to me she is the EVIL spawn of the Beast ( devil/ Satan) hence HildaBeast!!
ANY negative name for her is “WELL DESERVED”!!

DaveM

Several simile are acceptable: B!tch, Monger, Prostitute, minion, retard, nonhuman, beast, on and one (imho)

TEXAS AMERICAN

JUST PLAIN THE CUNT

OSAMA OBAMA

Cankled harpy in a pantsuit.

TEXAS AMERICAN

HILLARY THE CUNT

Btty

I like Killary! Let no one forget the 4 dead Americans on her watch. But I do like Hitlery to. I’ll use them both. 😉

KingoLingus

OK, Go with it LOL

Btty

Oh gosh, I sure didn’t mean any offense to anyone. Their both very good.

grafra102

@janejessee:disqus: We will not lose!!!! Killery, Billery pols have gone down.. If stupid is stupid votes for a POS like her then hope we good will over run it all. I have faith so lets do the same!!!

Jarhead

There are a lot of illegals and dead people itching to vote, and as often as possible.

momsense1

Yep ! ——-and welfare momma’s too—–registered at several different addresses and living at none.

Btty

That’s true. They will be looking for those Killary phones. You know the ones that are much like them Obama phones! 😉

BH

I’m on a couple Democrat Party email lists so I can get some inside information. They are really pushing the automatic registration concept. Claiming that 2 million people in Illinois are not registered and it would be so good to have them registered, according to them. More uninformed people registered, notice I didn’t say citizens, means more chances for illegal votes.

DaveM

I have faith in revolution….NEED TARGET PRACTICE!

momsense1

Guerilla war anyone?

Mark Tercsak

I saw this last week Hillary’s new name: HillBilly !

J_R_K

She’ll make him look like a regular boy scout.. Just like he did to her husband.

DaveM

I personally think it will be time for an active revolution!

crisco

Well said!!!

Conservative

We may have educated them at once but they no longer educate illegals or even legals. They have replaced ‘education’ with indoctrination about Communism and about what the government ‘owes’ them. They teach pornographic sex education to include LGBT’s and that any and all sexual acts are normal human behavior. They spend more time in’sensitivity training’ and monitoring the lunches parents pack to determine if they are nutritious enough according to Mooch Obama. They scrutinize every word a student utters, the tee shirts they wear what books they read, what message may be on their cars to ensure there is nothing indicating Christianity or Patriotism and pride in the U.S. and the Military.

DaveM

Is this the normality for all? Hello no! Many do what you are saying but thereare actual teachers who teach and cause kids to learn deduction, truth, honor, and professionalism! One can not put the entirety into one pot! If one does then we will be as the demorates and Killary want us to be!

Barbara Ervin

Stop allowing the damned home invading illegals to attend taxpayer funded public schools and things will rapidly improve!!!!!!!!!

momsense1

Because the Democrats need the votes. They abandoned white America years ago and now wonder why they get a shrinking part of the white vote.

Ellen

No, it is our politicians foolishness. They do not value our country and the legal Americans. They had gotten to their wealth easily, anything goes. Pretty soon we will be heavily taxed and the country overflowing with ILLEGALS. I wonder where we will be then.

Mark Tercsak

This is what happens, when you convert a Republic, into a Democracy, Mob Rule !

kapockz

There is a limit to the number of people needed to pick fruit and vegetables. Now, the majority of the ones doing this work will have high school diplomas.

absinthe

Your goals are too modest. Ph.D.s are next.

kapockz

I heard recently that there are Ph.D.s making hamburgers for a living. They want a minimum wage of $15.00 per hour.

absinthe

Will the Ph. D.s spit in our burgers? I would rather have an escapee from my local jail patting my pattie.

KingoLingus

Id rather have my dog do it. At least once he’s trained to do a trick he does it consistently with a tail wagging and appreciative love for his Scooby snack 🙂

Jim_Macklin

A simple MS or MA will do. A double major in the new degree fields in public demonstrations and riots and arson from the Soros/Bloomberg School of No Knocks.

Jarhead

Pretty Hazardous Driver’s true dat……and they all can say “Don’t speaka any frickin English” when pulled over by a LEO.

KingoLingus

LOL

Jarhead

And will be supporting the Mexican Mafia by send some of that income back to Mexico. (NOT spending in the USA economy)

absinthe

“Professional educators” look first of all to their salaries and their taxpayer funded retirement benefits. They want to get out of the classroom, escape the thugs, and work snuggly in central office as “professional educational administrators”.

It would help, of course, if “professional educational administrators” could actually read and write, but we should not set impossibly high standards for them.

momsense1

You got it , baby !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! —–and tese educational elites are theone teaching the classroom teachers how and what to teach and busting their a**es. if they don’t. These left wing namby – pamby’s are the ones responsible for the chaos in the classroom with their ” treat ’em with kids gloves theories”

grafra102

@momsense1:disqus: You have that right, and their is proof!!! They are dumber than the kids!!!!!!!

momsense1

—–and the kids learn just how to play the game—-especially the ” I’m a victimized minority game”. That ends all discipline

DaveM

Where then does parents responsibility begin and end? Each person is responsible to perform in life according to the facts learned in life, school and application! I agree that administration in the public school system is a major factor of this failure; however, the parents requirements should not be “Look what they are doing to Johnny!” but, “Johnny why did you not follow the rules and do better….I expect more from you!”

momsense1

Parents are now free to abrogate their responsibilities since the government became every child’s parent. Thank you Democrats and your Socialist agenda.

Warpaint

Those people who can, do… those who can not, teach

absinthe

Those who can neither do nor teach, these people administrate.

Warpaint

Funny that is what my father (an educator) said 30 years ago, that was what made him retire was when ultra liberals kooks with liberal arts degrees took over administration of the school systems and he had ENOUGH and he was a new deal democrat said he couldnt stand the stupidity of these unionized functionaries.

momsense1

That’s why many of the people I taught with are now retired. They’d sooner have these two year wonders in Teach for America, instead of experienced qualified teachers because they can pay them less and bring in the next semi-qualified batch two years later.

Warpaint

What was sad is my father loved teaching 5th grade, he said at that age they where still reachable and teachable and his “kids” loved him.

momsense1

So did I and most of the teacher who left when I did. I taught high schools and even then some of the kids were still reachable( not many, but some)/ Liberal administrations who refuse to deal with the discipline problems and the chaos that results only make the problems worse and drive dedicated teachers form the classroom for someone’s political ends.

DaveM

Everyone gets what they pay for! Time for a change which includes responsibility and truth!

momsense1

Unfortunately, those who pay the most get nothing.

DaveM

agreed! otherwise THEY COULD CHANGE THINGS TO THE BETTER IN FAVOR FOR THE STUDENTS LONG TERM SUCCESS!

momsense1

Wrong–now those who can’t, run the educational administrations and the curriculum labs to get out the government Liberal Socialist propaganda.

DaveM

Agreed…mopst have part of their face brown instead of their noses!

KingoLingus

Or become security guards!

DaveM

Suggestion….why not become a teacher and change all of this through your actions? Your words are weak…actions speak louder with facts!

Warpaint

I instruct a class in computer technologies at a Boys and Girls club in a less fortunate town 3 times a week and I mentor kids in technology; is this the actions of which you speak?

OSAMA OBAMA

Turns
out that the driving force behind these hikes is the growing unfunded liability of UC’s pension fund and other items of questionable compensation. Allysia Finley with the Wall Street Journal explains:
“UCs this year needed to spend an additional $73 million on pensions, $30 million on faculty bonuses, $24 million on health benefits and $16 million on collectively bargained pay increases. The regents project that they will require $250 million more next year to finance increased compensation and benefit costs.”
Moreover, Finley reveals the extraordinary level of waste in the UC system: “Ms. Napolitano [President of the University of California] says that the UCs have cut their budgets to the bone, yet her own office includes nearly 2,000 employees—a quarter of whom make six-figure salaries. An associate vice president of federal government relations earns $273,375 a year, plus $55,857 in retirement and health benefits, according to the state controller’s office. Thirty professors at UC Santa Cruz rake in more than $200,000 in pay, and most faculty can retire at 60 and receive a pension equal to 75% of their final salary. More than 2,100 retirees in the university retirement system collected six-figure pensions in 2011.”

DaveM

Instead of looking a salaries and retirement benefits….look at the raw material they have to deal with! Parents who have less than a high school diploma. Parents who expect the school to raise their kids! Students who expect everything to be given to them! j Goals and standards must be made and upheld and this applies to teachers too! Did you know in Texas the years taught and the age of a person must equal 96 before they receive 100% benefits? Did yuou know teachers receive less per hour than even waiters or waitresses? Did you know administration cares more about making the student s’ parents happy than the truth of requirements teachers are held accountable for?

There are facts that are wrong in your post but the reality of a society in need abounds!

Ira Radnick

Great, more support for the continued dumbing down of America. we are losing our country to ourselves – the dumber selves amongst us. I can hardly believe that I am witnessing this in my own lifetime.

KingoLingus

Well, its called the food chain 🙂 You see, the little fish gets eaten by the bigger fish and on and on and on. I always revert to a quote to which I cannot remember who wrote it: Its easy to soar like an eagle when you are flying among buzzards. LOL

Warpaint

I heard it “it is hard to fly with the eagles when you are mired in shit”

KingoLingus

Hmmm LOL. I’ll try to remember that one but I like my version better hehe hehe

Art Hock

Stupidity at work. Bring in more illegals who don’t want to learn and give them free stuff so morons like Obumble and Hitlary can be elected.

KingoLingus

Hitlary! Wow thats a good one to add to my new dictionary along with Al Sharptongue and Jessie Jackass LOL!

headonstraight

Puerile fun for you and others among the silly-ass ultra-rightest name-calling crowd who delight in such asinine stuff!

KingoLingus

Truth hurts doesn’t it SCUMBAG!?

Jarhead

King he is doing the best he can with his/her/it’s HEAD SO STRAIGHT and far up his colon.

Kent2012

his head is sooo far up that when he sneezes his bow tie spins….

DaveM

I agree but he does not have the brain power to understand your words!

DaveM

He is a certified liberal!

DaveM

Tap on his name and this will prove YOU ARE RIGHT! HE IS A TRUE VERMIN OF DNA!

DaveM

I think you are part of the ” silly-ass ultra-rightest name-calling crowd who delight in such asinine stuff!”

ATTENTION READERS! Tap on “headonstraight’s” name and see what he writes! He is a pure breed liberal with no common sense and probably one who would vote for Killary or obama! He is a lost sheeple! Hey….headonstraight….hold your breath for three minutes and later tell us how you feel!

William Benton

headonstraight your head is on straight your ass hole

Art Hock

Good ones brother. LOL!

momsense1

Pretty soon they’ll be given diplomas just for showing up.

Warpaint

That is the EVERYONE is a winner moronic mentality… they forgot that second place is only the first loser.

Jarhead

NOT SO….it will just be sent electronically…… no need for any classrooms, teacher’s, testing…..

momsense1

Just may be on to something-keep ’em at a computer and no teacher need fear assault so no administrators are necessary either.

William Benton

momsense in my county they already do

donemyhomework

That’s because L.A.School officials are pussies. They lower standards instead of just flunking academic pussies.

donemyhomework

They’re pussies plain and simple.

absinthe

My experience with Latinos convinces me that they are racist, homophobic and deeply sexist. Our feminazis are in for a surprise when macho Mexican men are in control of our culture.

Not that I really mind.

KingoLingus

True that! I dont know a single Mexican that hasn’t beat his wife at least once (oh and brags about setting the bitch straight too). Yeah, they hate Homos just as much as we do thank God. Speaking of which, many are Christian and would love to behead muslims as well so the battle is half over if it ever starts!

donemyhomework

Yes, some of them do have an interesting perspective…a mostly juvenile perspective.

old codger

Oh but that may cause them irreparable self esteem problems!!! (sarc)

donemyhomework

The underlying factor is money per head. Push them thru so the cash flow remains the same.

Jim_Macklin

Why not make it simple, body temperature 96 to 99 degrees, able to read a Superman comic in any language and able to recognize a Mexican flag in a field of British, United States and Canadian flags.

KingoLingus

That’s setting the bar Kinda hi don’t you think? We need a Bell curve for that. Perhaps asking how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop would be pushing it too?

Jarhead

BINGO !

old codger

DITTO!!!

Warpaint

Yeah thats going to help our citizens be competitive with the Chinese and the Hindus. Unionized Civil service at it’s very best lowering the bar because they are not doing what they are paid to do.

Conservative

and the liberals want to raise the minimum wage for employees that are uneducated, rude, lazy, etc.

Warpaint

Yeah and they will be still flipping burgers at 50… When I started I worked at minimum 2.25 an hour it made me stay in school and become a professional so I couls earn real money. How many will still be working when BK, MCD’s turn the registers around to the public and just have it take ATM/CC’s. Like the automats of old.

momsense1

Why do you think companies use automated answering systems? The rudeness and actual animosity of he CSA’s was costing them money.

peter

That’s because California is a sanctuary state. They have no choice or they will have no one graduating from high school.

Conservative

This is just more asinine ‘political correctness’ that is rapidly dumbing down the youth of America. No wonder immigrants from countries who expect excellence, and stress a ‘good’ education are taking all the jobs and our college grads are living in their parents basements. The political correct spend more time teaching sex education, sensitivity training, worrying about American flags and anything Christian being displayed on school grounds, Kids graduating today don’t have any idea what the U.S. Constitution is, who the V.P. is, who their representatives are, how many states there are, etc. It is frightening and destructive that these people are voting when they have no idea who they are voting for, the integrity of the person, the ability of the person. Now in this decade people are voting on a person’s gender or race. They vote for free phones, free health care, food stamps, subsidized housing and welfare checks. The U.S. is crumbling and this destruction can be laid right at the foot of political correctness. These dumb downed students are immersed in government guaranteed student loans that will never be repaid, thus, the taxpayers are again forced to pay the banks who made these loans.

momsense1

You really can’t get a good job unless you know something—minority studies is not a valuable tool , unless you plan on becoming a community organizer to foment discord and start riots.

KingoLingus

But you see its really easy for foreigners to come here and exceed/succeed because the bar is set so low that mere attendance and completing assignments make them literal geniuses. Problem is that most of them do not have creative minds short of weaving pretty baskets or decorating china plates. Ever wonder why China with their huge population RARELY comes up with novel inventions or why they have to steal trade secrets? That should give you an indicator as to lack of forward/critical thinking!

William Benton

conservative do you not know that the president thinks there are 57 states

Conservative

I guess that included seven States he invented to add to the voting rolls he used to accumulate more votes.

ihatelibs

They better . Or everyone will Still be in the Third Grade

OlGyreneFU

Of course they lowered the standards, how else will they keep the liberal,democratic,socialist voting base if they do not make sure that they have a large supply of semi-literate people. Besides that the state of California and the majority of those living in it deserve this kind of educational system, they continue to elect socialist,liberals to lead their state farther and farther into a fiscal hole that they can never climb out of.

Jarhead

Don’t need to lower standards….just do like the union teacher’s do in Atlanta…..correct the answers…..everybody gets an A + ……..

William Benton

The next thing we will see is five generations in the same school because the great grandfather is still in the 12th grade with one family in the next grade and so on and all waiting for the grandfather to graduate

KingoLingus

My idea is get rid of Dep. of Indoctrination and just issue minorities a H.S. diploma at 18. After all, if they survived the likely abortion, then made it to 18 living with their scumbag parents while learning eubonics and managed to not get killed by their crack dealing gang friends they deserve recognition for something! We all know they are less likely to succeed and comprehension/reading skills are poor so why fight it. The .005% ( yes one thousandth of a percent) of them will actually do something positive and those will rise like a phoenix above the rest. The others will become baby mills, prostitutes and such or lawn boys and painters etc. I say save the billions and put it towards something useful like infrastructure 🙂

Jane Jessee

It figures: the dumbing down of America: invite in all the illegals, don’t expect them to learn or speak English: take all the dope, thug and gang crowd, add them to the mix and you end up with an illiterate society that is totally dependent on the rest of us to survive. GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM!!! OR pull yourself up and take care of yourself. You are not OUR RESPONSIBILITY!!!!

MILES E DRAKE

It is clear that the public schools are merely holding pens for the lumpenproletariat, dumbing down and inculcating dependence until their charges are ready for the criminal life or existence on the dole. Their aim is to produce a Roman mob that, supplemented by millions more being pumped in across the border, will keep the elite in power and can eventually be turned on marginalized Christians and dispossessed and displaced gringos when the time comes to finish the job and convert us formally into Mexamericubazuela.

KingoLingus

Good one, you get the gold star for the day in my opinion!!!

Jarhead

But no public school graduate will be able to spell it! Much less add, subtract, multiply or REASON.

Before I retired I saw two problems with college education. One was the lack of ability to communicate clearly. The second was a lack of ability in problem solving. All the “learning” in the world will not solve these two issues unless the focus is on them. Kids today need to be encouraged to learn, not be force fed with data only.

Warpaint

And parents have to BE parents and help teach their kids, however since most of them (parents) are parolees from the same broken and disreputable public educational system and expect YOU (educators) to teach them what should have been taught at home.

Warpaint,
That is a problem because the parents often lack such skills themselves. But the real answer is to change the kid’s attitude on learning. That requires a different direction by the schools. If the kid comes to school with a desire to learn, kids will improve. They in turn will become better parents. A change in learning has to take place with eh parents as well. The parents could actually learn some things from their kids. But that is a major hurdle.

Reality,
Idaho is using Common Core in many school districts with mixed results. It works fairly well in larger ones with more alternatives for kids. But it is a top down federal system which may or may not work in a given school district. So some have modified it to fit their ability to use CORE. This system requires retraining teachers so it is not an immediate success. I believe it is better for a school district to study CORE and then use it to fit their needs. I have found that some of the testing is more of the same old multiple guess an true/false questions. To teach kids how to communicate means creating an atmosphere of learning and then learning to express themselves. That means questions that need a short essay response. Yes, these kinds of tests take more time to read and grade. But that has to be the name of the game when it comes to improving communication and problem solving, a huge deficit in our past system.

Reality Check

“But it is a top down federal system which may or may not work in a given school district”
I thought you were an educator?

CC is NOT a fed program.
it was developed by the STATES to fix NCLB.

you should look up CC cause I think Right Wing Propaganda has been in your ear.
“This system” .

Reality,
What I said is what Idaho is doing. CC is supposed to be a states’ project but it was the culmination of educators from the states. As such, it is a one size fits all. School programs need to come from the local level. But better guidelines need to be in place. However, here local schools have the option to use CC or not. Some do and some do not. some school districts, especially poor and small ones in rural counties do not have the adequate teaching staffs.
Even so, CC does not completely solve the problems of communication or solve the lack of problem solving altogether. I got a package of data from the Boise School District and went through it page by page. It is a huge improvement over what teachers had been doing. But it is not yet a cure-all. It did inspire teachers to see education differently and focus on the big issues. That makes it quite worthwhile.

Albert L Biele

So, L. A. is going to lower there graduation standards knowing “D’ students will be forced to apply for subsidies rather then receive the necessary education to become self reliant. This is why we have young people roaming the streets selling drugs and shooting one another. This is the lunacy we can expect when liberals are in charge of our educational system. Now we know why big cities,run be liberals, have miserably failed there youth. (Liberals literally guide these people into poverty to secure the vote.) Maybe someday they’ll wake up and realized they’ve been scammed.

grafra102

What else is going to happen??????

lv4921391

hahahaha, poor LAUSD I taught a “study skills” class back in the mid 90’s at Van Nuys High School no other LAUSD high schools were teaching it…we had a copy of the Anaheim High Schools program…it was wonderful
as I was driving a load of passengers from LAX to Ventura Co I was telling the passenger seat fella about the course and how much I looked forward to the next school year…suddenly a young woman spoke up from somewhere behind me and said, “Oh, that’s how I got thru UCLA”, I asked where she learned the study skills, she said. ” L A Baptist “

Classic. Set standards for students and teachers. Any teacher who does not meet the standard gets canned. Any student that does not meet the standard gets flunked and does remedial.
Lowering standards does not benefit students. What the have is worthless and the diploma that the high achievers receive is also meaningless.
No more bilingual education. English immersion. All classes in English, period. All English teachers need to speak English without any crappy ethnic accent. When I took Spanish , I was required to pronounce Spanish properly.
Having some English teacher with a stupid cholita boarder barrio accent in unacceptable and insulting to English speakers

DollyT

Why send your kids to school of they are only going to get a diploma (cheap piece of papers) as a reward for being stupefied?

sully33

High school kids are taught subjects that they will never use in their adult lives or in their jobs. My son in-law is a teacher and we’ve had discussions on what I called useless education. I told him I’d like schools to teach 4 years of English and World History. A half semester is good enough for bookkeeping, general science, algebra, trigonometry, typing, biology, etc. Then trade schools. If they need more knowledge in a subject, there’s community colleges. Look at what kids are majoring in today, Liberal Arts, Sociology? Government jobs? They’ll never help produce anything.

bdcorvette

A student who is either disinclined or too dumb to go to college should not be denied a diploma unless he is FAILING. D means minimal but sufficient mastery to be deemed a grad. There is also this nugget for the bleeding hearts: we owe NOTHING to anyone who entered the country illegally, except a one way ticket back to their country of origin.

alohay2k

Yes, that works well with the Obamunist’s (America’s number one traitor) plan to transform the country he and Michelle hate >>>> the USA >>>> into a third world country led by racists and incompetents.

Reality Check

MORE LIES and Distortion from the RIGHT.

“The board previously had required students, starting in 2017, to receive a C or better in a set of college preparatory courses required for admission to four-year state universities. The goal was to ensure that all L.A. Unified students were eligible to apply for the University of California and Cal State systems.

On Tuesday, however, the board backed down from that policy. Now, students will be allowed to pass these courses — and graduate — with a D. But they will be ineligible for admission to UC or Cal State campuses with a D in any of these classes.”

1LTLos

OOPs You mean to say that the LAUSD, thanks to governor Braun and the morons in Washington, is mostly illegal aliens who give Americans of Mexican heritage a bad name. I graduated with a 3.75 GPA and played 4 years of football while in high school. How is it that the biggest school district in the nation cannot get its act together? Send the illegals back to Mexico – not to college!

old codger

Pretty soon out there if one can tie their shoelaces they can graduate!! WTH over!! Dumb down to the lowest common denominator! To that I say B.S.!!!!!!

OSAMA OBAMA

Only in Marxifornia. The more these twats throw our money at these lazy, slovenly vermin, the further they lower the bar. The Asian kids are doing ok! I wonder why!

DaveM

Great…now how many illiterate graduates has this added to? Should have stayed back! Cowards of administration do not care about the children future or this countries!~ They need to be removed and held accountable for their poor decision!

Dennis J. Callahan

Students unable to speak English consist of 23% of those that don’t pass….DUH!!! What part of this equation don’t the liberals understand…If you can’t speak English what the hell are you doing in a classroom period. Learn the language of this country first. Oh….wait a minute….you are an illegal immigrant to this country…you are getting free housing, free food, free medical, free welfare entitlements…now I understand…forget what I previously said….NOT!!!

Earl Spencer

It seems to me that English would be a required class. Anyone moving to a Spanish speaking country would need to learn Spanish.

Restituto Guzman Jr.

Liberal stupidity is very simple translated to high school graduates that cannot read or write a simple sentence or do simple mathematical problems. So the liberal bureaucrat’s lower the school standards to allowed more substandard students to graduate to face and unforgiving labor market.

MrsTJNic@aol.com

This is the same war for Freedom of choice that our spirits fought for, in the war in Heaven. Satan was the DEMOCRAP, wanting to force everyone to look out for everyone else, and all the glory for himself, but Christ was the Republican wanting us to be able to CHOOSE for OURSELVES, so God could know which way to judge us, by our choices, and provide a saviour (Republican) if we repent. 1/3 host of Heaven (Democraps) were CAST OUT, with Satan, & he continues to wage war with conservatives to this day. KEEP FIGHTING!

Linda Lee

All they deserve is a certificate of completion. nothing more.

Arthur L. Trevallee

I wonder if these folks are getting the same quality of education that we did in 1965?

BillH

This cutting of the standards will not help. That is why they started the ‘community’ Junior colleges in the early 1960’s. The students needed to get their ‘high school’ education before going on to the universities. The federal level of the Dept. of Education has been purposefully ‘dumbing down’ the school curriculum nation wide since its creation in order for ‘Big Brother Government’ to have easier control of you. That is why we put our children in Christian Schools and also did ‘home schooling’ to assure that they had a good foundation before going out on their own.
If we have to ‘water down’ for the benefit of the illegals, it will only hurt them in the long run in attempting to become citizens. First off they need to be deported and told to get in line to come in ‘legally’ if they want to be here. To have a multiple language system to appease them, is also wrong. Thanks to the ‘dumbing down’ program of the public education, most people have forgotten that we determined to be an English speaking country in the 1790’s. The Left Wing Liberals have removed the facts about it from our history books.

Dazzeetrader1980

Such a deterioration of the entire country in ALL things under Obama and his Dems. California is overrun and this is what we get… Low standards going lower. And the taxes going higher to fund the vote hundry Dems and their programs which are basically supervised death of a ountry. I’m just so glad I left California…and took 1000 workers with me.

Alleged Comment

We must accommodate the turd-world immigrants by turning our country to a turd-world standard so we resemble Mehico and Afrika!

That is the goal of lieberals. America MUST fail FALL! How DARE we better ourselves from the rest of the world. HOW DARE WE!

See The Light

I can see it now, thousands of non English speaking young people standing on the corner waving their diploma looking for day labor jobs. I do hate to admit it but I think this country is done.

teachersaide

Am I the only one on this site, who can Remember when the schools in California were the ENVY of the nation, & the World? This is totally unacceptable! Both GOP & Dems have been promising to “secure the border” for almost 30 YEARS! And, DHS rates our southern border as 44% “Secure”! THIS is a travesty. NO AMNESTY until we have a SECURE border! In this day and age of world wide terrorism, ANYTHING else should NOT be allowed. IF we have to VOTE all the incumbents out to do it, then that’s what we should do!

randi

Sure lower education standards aren’t these students dumb enough? In stead add the standards to a higher level.

readmylipsnow

Sounds like a lot of excuses are being fed the public for these decisions. Isn’t it about time people learned the words accountability and responsibility? We must learn to earn and earn in order to learn. The culture of the illegals is “gimme”. It will never get changed as long as socialists, I.e hitlery, are Illegally voted into office. Wake up legitimate voters.

bobtherebuilder

“D average” huh? As in Duuuuhh…just another (D)ay in the land of (D)emonrat, (D)iluted, (D)ilusional (D)umb@**es !! There is now ONLY ONE “reason” to send your children to the indoctrination camps, which pose as “schools”…..wait, on second thought…maybe NOT!!!

MarcJ

New standard for high school diploma – it is not necessary to be able to read. That would be racist and aimed at Blacks and Latinos.

curtmavi38

If they think that they are doing these students a favor think again. It will get and probably has already made a diploma from high school virtually worthless. The students who get these diplomas and have not done the work to get them will be just as stymied as if they had quit school and will mostly live their lives in poverty. How about really
teaching these students and taking time with the ones that are having a hard time, that’s where it would make more since. Please don’t shortchange our children because you don’t want to take the time to make a difference in their lives. meh.

Mark Tercsak

We must face facts, The Republican party, the party of Ronald Wilson Reagan, is no more, The leadership with in that party hates Reagan and they always did, real republicans are very liberal big spenders and love big government just as much as the Bolshevik’s who control the Democratic Party. A few years ago was watching PBS and they had a special on Elsie Hillman, she is from my area of the country, big money on how she got involved in politics and was a major player in the Republican party, and how she opposed Ronald Reagan in the 1980 primary’s , when he beat George W. Bush in the primary’s , there was a part meeting that followed with the powers to be, Mrs. Hillman stated in her own words she walk up to Reagan and congratulated him on his primary victory and then told him now Ronald if you want to win and be President, you had better select him as your running mate or you will not have the proper backing and she pointed to George W. Bush., ever since that fatefull decision over 35 years ago this party is on the wrong tracks and is going in the wrong direction. This party is most responsible for killing the conservative movement that folks like Barry Goldwater and Ronald W. Reagan and others built. Thus i left that party in 2012 and have never looked back, It is time we reignite our founding father’s movement, a Constitutionalist movement and restore our republic, please look into the Constitution Party and consider Joining.

OSAMA OBAMA

How much further do we have to lower the bar so that these future democrats can graduate, get a job and get a section 8 home?

adrianvance

How long before the final exams are “How well can you swing between two trees?”

DPMP, all of your post is dead on. I suspect the answer is easy. Letting illegals stay in our country will enable the liberal terrorists to stay in power. In the vast majority of cases, without illegal invaders voting, and other liberals voting multiple times and using dead people to vote, the liberals would be out of a job.